Logistics Assistant

ISP Chemicals LLC; Calvert City (KY); On-site; USD 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashland LLC is seeking a Logistics Assistant III at our Calvert City, KY location to support inventory control, SAP transactions, and regulatory compliance. The role emphasizes collaboration with the Lab and CSRs to ensure timely product releases and accurate shipments.

The ideal candidate brings a high school diploma and 1–5 years of hands-on SAP and Office experience, with willingness to obtain 49CFR and 40CFR certifications. This is a hands-on, visible role within the logistics function.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a High School diploma or equivalent.
• 1–5 years of hands-on experience working with SAP, Microsoft Office products (spreadsheets), and web interfaces.
• Must hold, or be willing to immediately obtain and maintain, 49CFR and 40CFR certifications.
• A tenacious, self-directed self-starter who demonstrates responsible and ethical behavior at all times.
• Driven to help the company build greater value by understanding the business, making complex decisions, and creating new, efficient ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Inventory & SAP Management: Handle SAP raw material receipts, move order processing (SAP moves), re-class data maintenance, and cycle counting activities.
• Inventory Control: Lead inventory control initiatives, including full investigations and reconciling production drumming records against finished good material locations.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with the Lab for timely product releases against market demand.
• Specialized Logistics: Handle customer returns, export sample requests, notice to ship for small packages via re-pack, and damaged drum reports/segregations.
• Environmental & Waste Compliance: Prepare hazardous waste manifests and oversee waste disposal protocols.
• Team Synergy: Learn and support adjacent team member roles, including order allocations (VL10G), while improving organizational capacity through collaborative relationships.
• Manage TMS LTL and TL shipments. Coordinate with Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) to meet customer on-time shipping and special requests

Skills

Tenacity

Self-directed

Ethical behavior

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

Web interfaces

Job description

ISP Chemicals LLC Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious? Are you always solving? Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us. Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Logistics Assistant III to join our Ashland LLC, Specialty ingredients business at our Calvert City, KY location. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Logistics function. This position will report to the Logistics manager.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Inventory & SAP Management: Handle SAP raw material receipts, move order processing (SAP moves), re-class data maintenance, and cycle counting activities.
• Inventory Control: Lead inventory control initiatives, including full investigations and reconciling production drumming records against finished good material locations.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with the Lab for timely product releases against market demand.
• Specialized Logistics: Handle customer returns, export sample requests, notice to ship for small packages via re-pack, and damaged drum reports/segregations.
• Environmental & Waste Compliance: Prepare hazardous waste manifests and oversee waste disposal protocols.
• Team Synergy: Learn and support adjacent team member roles, including order allocations (VL10G), while improving organizational capacity through collaborative relationships.
• Manage TMS LTL and TL shipments. Coordinate with Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) to meet customer on-time shipping and special requests

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• Minimum of a High School diploma or equivalent.
• 1–5 years of hands-on experience working with SAP, Microsoft Office products (spreadsheets), and web interfaces.
• Must hold, or be willing to immediately obtain and maintain, 49CFR and 40CFR certifications.
• A tenacious, self-directed self-starter who demonstrates responsible and ethical behavior at all times.
• Driven to help the company build greater value by understanding the business, making complex decisions, and creating new, efficient ways of working.

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer. At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do. Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty. Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization. Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit. Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

NOTE: We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.

Infinite possibilities Creating good chemistry isn’t just about what happens when you add the right ingredients together. It’s about what happens when the right people are one of the ingredients. Good chemistry – the kind that can transform a market or a world – is what makes Ashland different and what makes us better. If you’re passionate about the infinite possibilities created through good chemistry, we have a rewarding and challenging opportunity for you to help us make great things happen every day for our customers, our communities, our investors and our colleagues around the world.